We are working on a reference document to help sort through all of the options if you want to use your mobile phone while traveling outside the US. There are many. It really depends on how often you travel out of the country and how many calls you anticipate on making.

Take a look at our guide: Global Connections – A How to Guide on Using Your Mobile Phone Internationally

One company to consider is Telna Mobile. You get a US phone number with low inbound rates and free inbound text messages. Voicemail messages can checked online.

There are many other companies to choose from. Based on extensive research our guide discusses some of the best.

MyGlobalTalk.Com offers s great service. MGT allows people to call a US phone number, you choose it, and have it forwarded to any number around the globe. Rates are very reasonable. So if you change sim cards often this is a very viable solution. Give everyone this single number and you choose where it rings to! You can even have this number ring your hotel. It doesn’t matter. As long as you can login into the MGT web site to change the forwarding number you are set.

This guide also discusses the use of VOIP technology with a laptop and callback services. Both of which can save your large sums of money when trying to call the USA.